Rush rips female Lewinsky writers

Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday slammed three columns, all written by women, on the Monica Lewinsky essay in Vanity Fair, saying they each make light of the affair and are so similar “that these women could sue each other for plagiarism.”

“They are all the same piece. They are all trashing the woman. And they use the same terminology. It’s almost like these three women got a heads up and followed through,” the conservative radio host said on “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” according to a transcript of his program.

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“I mean, it’s so close that these women could sue each other for plagiarism here,” he added, saying each writer quotes close friend of Hillary Clinton, Diane Blair, as well as Lewinsky’s employment history since the scandal — both of which were topics Lewinsky addresses herself in the excerpts that were provided by the magazine.

Limbaugh questions how it was possible that the columnists —Andrea Peyser of the New York Post, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times and Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post — could have written similar columns unknowingly.

“What are the chances that all three of these independent female columnists, these women, would write essentially the same column on their own? I guess it could be possible,” Limbaugh said.

Lewinsky gained headlines Tuesday after excerpts of her essay in the upcoming June issue of Vanity Fair were released by the magazine. But Limbaugh said the columns are part of the media’s response to “rewriting” the affair between Monica Lewinsky and former President Bill Clinton.

“They’ve tried to make it sound cute. They’ve tried to make it sound puppy love cute. They’ve tried to make it sound like harmless sex, a momentary dalliance by our president, otherwise committed and donated to greatness,” Limbaugh said. “They’re almost identical today trying to position this thing as nothing but a harmless little sex romp with a young woman.”